Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader shares a ZDNet report: User accounts for iMesh, a now-defunct file sharing service, are for sale on the dark web. The New York-based music and video sharing company was a peer-to-peer service, which rose to fame in the file sharing … Continue reading Hacker Puts 51 Million iMesh Accounts For Sale On Dark Web
Details of Microsoft’s rumored new console have dropped ahead of the company’s conference at E3 tradeshow Monday. It appears the long-anticipated smaller and more powerful variant of company’s current console is real. According to a leaked press render… Continue reading Microsoft’s 4K-capable Xbox One S Is 40% Smaller Than Company’s Current Gen Console: Report
An anonymous reader writes: Walgreens has announced that it’s terminating its partnership with blood-testing startup Theranos. All 40 of the “Theranos Wellness Centers” in Walgreen’s Arizona drugstores will be shut down immediately, closing what has be… Continue reading Walgreens Cuts Ties With Blood-Test Startup Theranos
Reader Irishman writes: Looks like August 5, 2016 is the last day for people clinging to the old desktop version of Yahoo Messenger. A new version is supposedly in the works but otherwise, it will be the mobile app or the web version. From a PCMag repo… Continue reading Legacy Yahoo Messenger App Being Retired
Microsoft on Monday announced it is acquiring LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for a whopping sum of $26 billion — or $196 per share, in cash. The transactions, the companies say, has already been approved by both boards. As part of the… Continue reading Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion
Racial justice activist DeRay Mckesson became the most recent victim of a high-profile Twitter account hack. Mckesson this week started to endorse for Donald Trump and posted a self-defamatory tweet. Later he announced that his account was hacked. What… Continue reading How Activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter Account Was Hacked
The FBI did turn to NSA when it was trying to hack into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, according to an NSA official. But to many’s surprise, one of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies couldn’t hack into that particular iPhone 5c model… Continue reading NSA Couldn’t Hack San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone; Now Working On Exploiting IoT
Alex Hern, reporting for The Guardian:A new “heat map of the internet” has revealed the countries most vulnerable to hacking attacks, by scanning the entire internet for servers with their front doors wide open. Produced by information security firm Ra… Continue reading Belgium Tops List Of Nations Most Vulnerable To Hacking
Quartz did a story in 2014 in which, citing comScore’s data, it noted that most smartphones users download zero apps per month. Two years later, the data from Nomura reveals that the top 15 app publishers saw downloads drop an average of 20% in the Uni… Continue reading Slashdot Asks: Is the App Boom Over?
Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent’s forum, which has over 388,000 registered members and sees tens of thousands of visitors each day, has been hacked. TorrentFreak reports: The uTorrent team was alerted to the issue by one of their vendors earlier thi… Continue reading uTorrent Forums Hacked, Passwords Compromised